The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
JIM MORRISONWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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No one here gets out alive.
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..
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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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